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Stamped from the beginning : the definitive history of racist ideas in America

Title
Stamped from the beginning : the definitive history of racist ideas in America / Ibram X. Kendi.
ISBN
9781568584638
1568584636
9781568584645
Publication
New York : Nation Books, [2016]
Copyright Notice Date
©2016.
Physical Description
viii, 582 pages ; 25 cm.
Summary
"A comprehensive history of anti-black racism focuses on the lives of five major players in American history, including Cotton Mather and Thomas Jefferson, and highlights the debates that took place between assimilationists and segregationists and between racists and antiracists"-- NoveList.
"Americans like to insist that we are living in a postracial, color-blind society. In fact, racist thought is alive and well; it has simply become more sophisticated and more insidious. And as award-winning historian Ibram X. Kendi argues in Stamped from the Beginning, racist ideas in this country have a long and lingering history, one in which nearly every great American thinker is complicit. In this deeply researched and fast-moving narrative, Kendi chronicles the entire story of anti-Black racist ideas and their staggering power over the course of American history. Stamped from the Beginning uses the lives of five major American intellectuals to offer a window into the contentious debates between assimilationists and segregationists and between racists and antiracists. From Puritan minister Cotton Mather to Thomas Jefferson, from fiery abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison to brilliant scholar W. E. B. Du Bois to legendary anti-prison activist Angela Davis, Kendi shows how and why some of our leading proslavery and pro-civil rights thinkers have challenged or helped cement racist ideas in America. As Kendi provocatively illustrates, racist thinking did not arise from ignorance or hatred. Racist ideas were created and popularized in an effort to defend deeply entrenched discriminatory policies and to rationalize the nation's racial inequities in everything from wealth to health. While racist ideas are easily produced and easily consumed, they can also be discredited. In shedding much-needed light on the murky history of racist ideas, Stamped from the Beginning offers us the tools we need to expose them--and in the process, gives us reason to hope." -- Publisher's description.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
April 28, 2016
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 516-561) and index.
Contents
Cotton Mather. Human hierarchy ; Origins of racist ideas ; Coming to America ; Saving souls, not bodies ; Black hunts ; Great awakening
Thomas Jefferson. Enlightenment ; Black exhibits ; Created equal ; Uplift suasion ; Big bottoms ; Colonization
William Lloyd Garrison. Gradual equality ; Imbruted or civilized ; Soul ; The impending crisis ; History's emancipator ; Ready for freedom? ; Reconstructing slavery ; Reconstructing blame
W.E.B. Du Bois. Renewing the south ; Southern horrors ; Black Judases ; Great White Hopes ; The Birth of a Nation ; Media suasion ; Old deal ; Freedom brand ; Massive resistance
Angela Davis. The act of civil rights ; Black power ; Law and order ; Reagan's drugs ; New Democrats ; New Republicans ; 99.9 percent the same ; The extraordinary Negro.
Genre/Form
History.
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